Word Meanings - TARSI - Book Publishers vocabulary database

pl. of Tarsus.

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• TARSUS
  The foot of an insect or a crustacean. It usually consists of form two to five joints. (more info) The ankle; the bones or cartilages of the part of the foot between the metatarsus and the leg, consisting in man of seven short bones. A plate of
• TARSOMETATARSUS
  The large bone next the foot in the leg of a bird. It is formed by the union of the distal part of the tarsus with the metatarsus.
• METATARSUS
  That part of the skeleton of the hind or lower limb between the tarsus and phalanges; metatarse. It consists, in the human foot, of five bones. See Illustration in Appendix.
• HYPOTARSUS
  A process on the posterior side of the tarsometatarsus of many birds; the calcaneal process. -- Hy`po*tar"sal, a.
• TIBIOTARSUS
  The large bone between the femur and tarsometatarsus in the leg of a bird. It is formed by the union of the proximal part of the tarsus with the tibia.